As Time Goes By Author:Mary Higgins Clark With her promotion to evening news anchor, plus the assignment of covering a sensational murder trial for her network, television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom. She should be celebrating, but her increasingly urgent need to locate her birth mother consumes her thoughts. — On trial for murder is Betsy Grant, who claims she l... more »oved her husband and would never of harmed him-even to put him out of the misery of early onset Alzheimer's disease. When her once-upon-a-time celebrity lawyer urges her to accept a plea bargain, Betsy refuses: She will go to trial to prove her innocence.
Meanwhile, Betsy's stepson, Alan Grant, nervously bides his time as the trial begins. Alan's substantial inheritance hangs in the balance - his only viable means of making good on the payments to support his ex-wife and children, not to speak of his increasingly angry creditors.
When Delaney's friends Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy offer to look into the mystery surrounding her birth, they uncover a shocking secret. As the trial unfolds, the son of a Oscar-winning director overdoses and a burglar is arrested, while Delaney's relentless pursuit of the truth outside the courtroom puts her life in imminent danger.« less